Obviously I am doing my exchange in University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Though the school workload here is less than I got in TAMK, it requires much more of learning-by-heart and teaching involves more theory or perhaps my chosen subjects focused on finance stuffs. The best thing for me, as a United fan, is free school bus from main campus to Old Trafford stadium. So far, I’ve been to 2 games there; one of which is Argentina vs Portugal and first time in my life I saw Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in a same match.
Apart from football, I visited a British family in Widnes once weekend as part of family host programme running throughout the UK. Quite surprisingly, I figured out that chips are served in almost every meal like fish & chips; steak & chips, etc… Also, my English skills were put under the most extreme test ever as I got to deal with elderly’s Northern British accents and many slangs and dialect used on daily basis like “brew” means “tea” and “dead” is” very” …But anyway, I had a pleasant stay with such nice and helpful people and now I can proudly call them “my family in Britain”.
Many folks told me that Tampere is Manchester of Finland and now I reckon it is quite a fair comment. Not only do the 2 cities share the shame history background as the first industrious hub in each own countries but they are also considered to be the media city of the whole nation. Media city UK consists of giant British media companies such as BBC, iTv… and Salford University’s new campus is proudly located next to them.
Christmas is coming to town. Wish all of u a very merry Christmas with friends and family.
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